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MadameButterfly

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8. If we were really on our own

Reply to sheshe2 (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 23, 2025, 08:06 PM

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we could stop sending taxes to the Federal government and raise taxes to address our own disasters instead of sending it to red states. How long can we sustain none of our taxes going to anything that benefits us? It is now only ICE, foreign wars, and the pockets of Trump and his cronies. And select red state disasters.

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